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Hopefully, the global economic crisis will resolve quickly, Harvard will invest in some bonds created from bundled life-insurance policies, and these impecunious days will fade into a distant memory. For now, the sweet aroma of pig fat draws me to the dining hall—thankfully, Harvard has enough sense to keep serving hot breakfasts on the weekends. But that just makes Mondays that much worse...
...Neill Blomkamp’s protagonist in “District 9”—who becomes a human-alien hybrid—reflects the success of such half-breeds. After being assigned to assist in relocating 2 million alien refugees from their city slum to a distant concentration camp, Wikus van de Merwe (the impressive Sharlto Copley) is forced to help the aliens escape the planet. With the same seemingly magnetic pull of District 9—the aforementioned slum on the outskirts of Johannesburg—the movie deftly draws the audience in with conflicting tales...
...Unlike previous Iraq War films like “Stop-Loss,” which patronizes viewers with takeaways they already agree with, “Hurt Locker” disguises its message with subtlety, focusing on the difficult lives of soldiers and culture clash rather than anything as distant as politics or presidents. Renner’s portrayal of a bomb-diffusing, cigarette-smoking madman is perhaps the best male performance of 2009. The rest of his team includes characters played by Anthonie Mackie and Brian Geraghty, the latter essentially reprising his deer-in-the-headlights role...
Adding insult to injury, Chrysler finished a distant sixth place in overall sales for the month, behind even the younger South Korean brands, Hyundai and Kia, which don't report their sales figure jointly, even though they are owned by the same company. When combined, the two Korean brands sold more than 100,000 vehicles in August, finishing ahead of Chrysler in monthly sales for the first time. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Index fell 5%, setting off panic selling in Hong Kong and dinging even the Dow. But Chinese stocks rebounded 2.7% the next trading day, the steepest rise in two months. Fast forward to Aug. 31. The Shanghai index dropped 6.7% that day, causing panic around Asia and even in distant markets like...